New Zealand's blood-sucking summer nightmare (actually, it's year-round).
Saturday, 16 January 2021
Insect Populations Suffering Death By 1,000 Cuts
‘Frightening’ global decline is ‘tearing apart tapestry of life’, with climate crisis a critical concern.
CES 2021 Highlights: 79 Gadgets and Glimpses Into the Future
The consumer electronics show was virtual this year, and the WIRED Gear crew watched all the Zooms to bring you this list of nearly 80 products, trends, musings, and photos.
Friday, 15 January 2021
Dostoevsky in Love by Alex Christofi Review – Unpredictable, Dangerous and Thrilling
His marriages were disastrous but his words were so rousing they made strangers embrace... a superb study of the Russian novelist.
Thursday, 14 January 2021
Medical Brain is Google's Latest Attempt to Revolutionize Health Care
Google is working on a slew of AI tools that can predict symptoms and disease with a level of accuracy that is being met with hope as well as alarm (as will be dealt with in the final book of the Doctor Sababa series—The Last Casebook of Doctor Sababa).
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Evolution’s Engineers
Organisms do not evolve blindly under forces beyond their control, but shape and influence the evolutionary environment itself.
Tuesday, 12 January 2021
Monday, 11 January 2021
Sunday, 10 January 2021
The Problem of Now
The injunction to immerse yourself in the present might be psychologically potent, but is it metaphysically meaningful?
The Day the Great Apes Died: The Legacy of the 1995 Philadelphia Zoo Fire
Twenty-five years ago, the tragedy at the World of Primates building broke the city’s heart and raised a loaded question: What, exactly, do we owe the animals in our care?